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If you live in the Eastern portion of the United States and the skies are clear you can see a student built satellite flashing LEDs in Morse Code today. But don't worry. If you it's cloudy or if you live elsewhere there are several other opportunities to see it in the coming days. This is the Niwaka Fitsat-1. It was developed by students at the [Fukuoka Institute of Technology] and deployed … [Read more...]
We absolutely love these stories of hacker ingenuity saving peoples lives. In this case, it was aboard the ISS, and the item being hacked was a toothbrush. The story is as follows. Some equipment failed, as space junk tends to do, and the astronauts found themselves needing to do some repairs. Upon inspection, they couldn't remove some modules due to an accumulation of "space dust" … [Read more...]
We had a lot of fun with that title. Of course when you're talking about launching a thousand ping pong balls into space there's no end to the puns which can be made. But this is actually a fantastic initiative to get people of all ages excited about science and near-space experiments. [John Powell] offers school children the opportunity to send an experiment into space. He's Kickstarting the next … [Read more...]
Earlier today we posted a link to a tournament NASA is holding. NASA is trying to crowdsource the organization of terabytes of data collected from missions all over the solar system. A few Hackaday readers wrote in (thanks [grbgout] and all the others) to tell us there is an International Space Apps Challenge going on this weekend to crowdsourse solutions to the problems of space flight. The … [Read more...]
The Swiss plan to clean up the near-space environment. They just announced a debris removal device which they plan to launch in three to five years. The first goal of the program is to scoop up two satellites. Both of them are Swiss owned, but there's something very James Bond like that pops into our heads when we hear that. We're sure you already know there's a space junk issue in orbit. But … [Read more...]
Take the risk of not recovering your hardware out of a near-space camera launch by streaming the data during flight. [Tim Zaman] is part of a team that developed the rig seen above. It sent 119 image back during the recent balloon launch. This included transmissions from as high as 36 kilometers. The main hardware included a BeagleBoard with connected Webcam housed in a Styrofoam cooler for … [Read more...]
[Thierry Legault] doesn't just look up at the stars, the uses a motorized telescope base of his own making to track and photograph secret objects orbiting the earth. What do we mean by 'secret objects'? Spy stuff, of course. Last month he captured some video of the X-37B, an unmanned and secretive reusable spacecraft (read: spy shuttle) which is operated by the United States Air Force. That … [Read more...]
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